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1766 J. Wedgwood Let. 15 Sept. in Sel. Lett. (1965) 42 As our connections are to become extensive in the Potting business, it is absolutely necessary you should visit the Manufacture.

1813 Let. in William & Mary Q. 3rd Ser. 31 (1974) 197 Alexander and Jack resumed their potting business, their strikers (helpers) were very little inferior to themselves, some of them had been 7 years at the trade.

1875 D. H. Mason How Western Farmers are Benefited by Protection 62 A foreign manufacturer,..is said to have expressed a determination, before he returned to England last summer, to unroof the Trenton potteries and destroy the ‘plant’ of capital there in the potting business.

2004 Sunday Times (Nexis) 11 Apr. 60 A bout of scarlet fever left him [sc. Wedgwood] unable to work in the family potting business, so he turned his attention to the scientific study of ceramics.